Re: Any interest in an XOAUTH2 patch for smtpmail (Gmail 2-factor auth)?

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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I think this would be an excellent extension as it should mean you won't
need to use the 'application' passwords hack, which sort of undermines 2fa
configs anyway.

On 6 January 2018 at 16:32, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "CC" == Cesar Crusius <cesar.crusius@gmail.com> writes:
>
> CC> I recently had to add XOAUTH2 support in smtpmail to access my
> two-factor
> CC> authenticated Gmail account, which turned out to be surprisingly simple
> CC> (my hack has about 20 lines of code, I guess it would about double to
> do
> CC> it properly).
>
> CC> It uses oauth2.el, so my plan would be to make smtpmail load that
> library
> CC> on demand, in case the new smtpmail-xoauth2 variables are configured. I
> CC> guess the required functionality could be copy-and-pasted, but that
> seems
> CC> a waste.
>
> CC> Is there any interest in a patch?
>
> This sounds useful to me. How will users know to enable the extra behavior?
>
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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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